Re: (intern 'symbol) - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: (intern 'symbol)
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/02/09
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3127544734586050@naggum.no>

* "Will Fitzgerald" <fitzgerald@neodesic.com>
| I was surprised to find that, in one Lisp implementation, calling INTERN on
| a symbol doesn't signal an error.
| 
| The HyperSpec section on INTERN indicates INTERN's first parameter is a
| string, but doesn't say anything directly about other data types.

  well, I was surprised to learn that INTERN does _not_ take a string
  designator, like almost everything else that accepts strings as arguments.

#:Erik
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